TO A. SHLYAPNIKOV.

We should send (through Litvinov) a) a complete translation of our Manifesto, b) a translation of the government's announcement regarding the arrest of the R.S.-D.R. Fr[action]—and send all of this not as a rapport, not as a report (so that it doesn't appear that we recognize the conference), but as a communication.

I shake your hand firmly and wish you all the best.
Be more c a r e f u l
and sans rancune, n'est-ce pas?
Your Lenin.
*) See note 2 to letter 8.
*) Gr. — Gregory — G. E. Zinoviev.
3) Swedish speech — the speech delivered by comrade Shlyapnikov in Stockholm at the congress of the Swedish S.-D. party in 1914. See letter of 14/XI and 17/XII.
4) Don't be angry, isn't that so?

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10.

Dear friend!

I received (and Nadezhda Konstantinovna) a letter from Kollontai. We are preparing to reply to her.

My letters to you are probably getting lost or delayed: I have written repeatedly to Kobelsky. Check once more.

We received your manuscript. We are thinking of publishing it in the Central O rgan (or as a pamphlet).

Are you reading "Golos"? There is already visible a turning point by Martov there—Axelrod's efforts to "reconcile" (Martov with Südekum, i.e. Plekhanov)—and alongside that Trotsky "against" "amnesty"!

Well, what a mess!
And they scold us for "factionalism" (while reconciling themselves with social-chauvinism for the sake of factionalism!!). A vile, tedious picture.

If you are at the conference, be more c a u t i o u s! If you are going to speak, I advise you to repeat the speech in Stockholm, adding that the entry into m[inistry] by the Belgians and French is also treason (admittedly with m i t i g a t i n g circumstances). Otherwise they will think that we are scolding only the Germans out of R u s s i a n chauvinism.

In my view, there is no point in sending a report, one shouldn't do it.

But to send for information (only)—and in the name of Litvinov (Litvinoff — 76. High Street. 76. Hampstead. London. N. W.) a complete translation of the Manifesto and the announcement regarding the arrest of the 5 (and 11).

I hope you have already corresponded with Litvinov by now?

To A. Shlyapnikov.
[January 1915]

I shake your hand firmly. Your L[enin].